Identification and recording roller



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15 Claims.

This invention relates to mechanism for printing a name and other identification data on sales slips and the like, and more especially to a, novel printing unit for that purpose of small dimension and normally enclosed' Within a tubular casing for convenient and secret carrying by the individual to be identified. My copending application, Serial No. 782,745, filed October 29, 1947, describes and claims the machine and this application describes and claims the printing unit. The printing unit, illustrated herein as comprising a cylindrical barrel with raised type on its periphery, is normally locked in the tubular casing by one or more resilient fingers carried by and disposed inaccessibly within the casing, and means is provided for mounting the unit rotatably on a supporting spindle and automatically releasing it from and permitting withdrawal of the casing when the unit is to be used for printing. The production of an improved identification and recording device of this nature comprises the primary object of the invention.

My improved printing unit is preferably in the form ci a roller embodying a cylinder having a printing plate wrapped tightly thereabout and-1* secured thereto along one margin. The roller is open at one end for receiving the locking fingers of the casing and is open at its other end for receiving the supporting spindle. Disposed within the roller, intermediately of spaced locking shoulders, is a sleeve adapted to cooperate With the locking fingers and spindle to release the fingers and permit withdrawal of the casing when applying the roller to the spindle and for releasing the spindle and permitting withdrawalu of the combined casing and roller therefrom when the casing is again applied to the roller following the completion of the printing operation. The

production of an improved printing device embodying these features comprises a further object of the invention.

The roller supporting spindle is carried by a recording apparatus and its free end is provided with resilient locking ngers for cooperating with an internal shoulder in the roller for locking the roller on the spindle. The sleeve is adapted to receive the casing fingers in one end and the spindle fingers in the other end and so to compress tlie fingers as to effect the releasing operations above described. The production of an improved mechanism of this nature for the purpose described comprises a further object of the invention. t

2 lowing description of a preferred embodiment thereof, selected for purposes of illustration and shown in the accompanyingdrawings wherein- Fig. 1 is a fragmentary View of a printing and recording apparatus adapted to receive and utilize the printing roller comprising this invention,

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the printing roller,

Fig. 3 is an elevation of a casing'for receiving and housing the printing roller,

Fig. 4 is a sectional View through the taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional View through the combined roller and casing, together with the roller supporting spindle in position to receive the roller, f

Fig. 6 is ar like view showing the roller applied to the spindle,

Fig. 7 illustrates the roller in printing position on the spindle with the casing removed,

Fig. 8 is a like sectional view showing the casing reapplied to the roller, and

Fig. 9 is a like View showing the combined casing and roller being removed from the spindle.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings I have illustrated an identification and recording apparatus for printing a name and other identication data on a sales slip l0 or the like. The apparatus, more specifically described in my said copending application, comprises a pedestal Il supported on a base (not illustrated) and including a shelf I2 for supporting a sales book I4 while the top sheets I9 are being printed, a platen i6 being provided for supporting the sheets Ill and interleafed carbon paper. A printing head i8 is pivotally mounted on the pedestal at I9 and is movable about the pivot from a horizontal printing position over the platen to the position illustrated in Fig. 1. The machine includes a spindle 20 for supporting a cylindrical printing roller 2|, and a housing 22 is pivotally mounted on the head for movement to the position of Fig. 1 in which the printing roller can be conveniently applied to and removed from the spindle.

The printing roller (Fig. 2) comprises a cylindrical tube 2| having a sheet 24 of soft metal wrapped tightly thereonto and secured as by solder along one margin 25. The sheet has type 26 impressed thereinto and extending outwardly from its outer face. Bushings 28 andV 29 are mounted within the two ends of the tube and secured by cross-pins 30. The inner ends of the tube bushings provide annular shoulders 32 and 34. in spaced relation Within the tube and a sleeve 35 is mounted to sldehileely within the roller,

tube between these shoulders. mounted on one end of the tube.

When not in use the printing roller is carried in a tubular protective casing 38 open at one end and having a closure 39 at its other end including a pair of resilient fingers 40 extending axially into the casing. The extreme inner ends 42 of the fingers 4are tapered and outwardly projecting shoulders y43 are provided on the fingers rearwardly of such ends for cooperating with the shoulders 32 of the printing roller. The arrange.- ment is such that when the casing is disposed. over the roller to the position illustrated in Fig. 5 the shoulders 43 engage the shoulders 32 and lock the roller within the casing.

The printing roller is adapted to be disposed over and connected to the spindle 25 as illustrated in Fig. 1. The combined roller and casing (Fig. 5) are passed onto the spindle, as illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6, and pressed thereonto to .the Vposition permitted by contact of the collar A collar 36 is 36 with the surface 44. This position is such as to .force the sleeve 3-5 onto the tapered ends l2 of the fingers 40 and compress the fingers sufciently to release their shoulders 43 from the shoulder 32. The free end of the spindle 2Q comprises two resilient Vlingers 46 tapered at their ends 41 and provided withrshoulders 43 rearwardly thereof. In the position illustrated in Fig. 6 the shoulders 48 engage the shoulders 34 and thus connect the spindle to the printing roller. In such position of the parts the casing 3B can be withdrawn and leave' the printing roller connected to the spindle as illustrated in Fig. '7.

After the printing operation has been performed, the casing is replaced over the printing roller and locked thereto by a single operation. The casing lis inserted over the printing roller, as illustrated in Fig. 8, andat the end of the printing operation the parts are in such position that the unit can be pressed to a lower level 5t. In such position the spindle fingers 4t enter and frictionallyzengagethe walls of a recess 5| in the .sleeve 35, thus disposing the shoulders 48 inwardly of the shoulders 34 and frictionally connecting the spindle to the sleeve 35. The frictional contact between the spindle and the sleeve 35 causes the sleeve to pull away from the fingers 40 which thereupon re-engage at 43 with the shoulder 32 -and lock the roller within the casing, andthe engagement of the fingers 46 within the recess 5l Aprevents engagement thereof with the shoulders 34. Thus the combined casing and printing roller are removed from the spindle. It will be noted that the taper 41 on the spindle is .substantially steeper than the taper on the ends `42 of the fingers 40 and, furthermore, the spindle fingers are substantially stiffer, thereby causing relatively g-reater frictional contact between the spindle fingers and the sleeve 35. The casing 38 provides a protective and secret carrier for the printing roller and it will be apparent that the novel construction illustrated and above described provides automatically for applying the printing roller to the spindle and releasing it therefrom for use, all withoutpermitting independent detachment of the roller from the casing and, except for its period of use, the roller is securely and secretly locked within the casing.

Having thus disclosed my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A printing roller comprising a cylindrical barrel with Araised type on its outer cylindrical surface, a locking shoulder on the barrel, a tubular casing open at one end for receiving the barrel thereinto, and locking means including a plurality of resilient fingers carried by and extending longitudinally inward of the casing from its other end, the fingers being disposed about the longitudinal axis of the casing and having outwardly extending shoulders adjacent to theirV free ends disposed between and remote from the two ends of the casing for cooperating with said locking shoulder on the barrel for locking the barrel in the casing; radial inward movement of the ngers being adapted to release the finger shoulders from the barrel shoulder.

2. Theprinting roller defined in claim l plus a cylindrical sleeve mounted to slide longitudinally within the barrel between said barrel shoulder and'y a second shoulder on the barrel spaced'from the first barrel shoulder a distance greater than the length of the sleeve, and inclined surfaces on the free ends of the fingers for engaging within the sleeve Vand .forcing the fingers radially inward.

3. The printing roller defined in claim 2 plus a spindle having a plurality of resilient 'fingers on its forward end and provided with outwardly facing shoulders for engaging the second shoulder on the barrel and locking the spindle in the barrel when the spindle is inserted thereinto, the forward end of the spindle fingers and the sleeve having cooperating surfaces for pressing the spindle fingers radially inward.

4. The printing roller defined in claim 3 in which the forward ends of the spindle fingers taper rearwardly-outward to a cylindrical surface thereon and in which the rear end of the sleeve is recessed to receive the Vspindle vfingers thereinto in compressed relation holding the spindlenger shoulders from engagement with the second named barrel shoulder and the spindle fingers in frictional contact with the barrel at said cylindrical surface.

5. The printing roller defined in claim 4 in which the taper on the spindle fingers is steeper than the inclined surfaces on the free ends of the first-named fingers.

6. The printing roller defined in claim 5 in which 'the spindle fingers are stiffer than the rst-named fingers.

'7. Apparatus for identifying customers and recording identifying indicia comprising a member having raised printing type on one surface, a casing having an opening for receiving the member thereinto, means within the casing and inaccessible from the outside thereof for locking the member in the casing, lock releasing means disposed within and carried by the member between and'remote from its two ends, a spindle adapted to enter the member and engage the lock releasing means, pressure of the spindle against the lock releasing means being adapted to release the member from the casing, and means carried by the spindle for connecting it with the member, the casing being thereupon removable from the combined member and spindle.

8. The apparatus defined in claim 7 in which the lock releasing means comprises a sleeve mounted to slide longitudinally within the member to one position releasing the member from the casing when pressure of the spindle on the sleeve forces it to said one position and to another position when retracted by the spindle, and means providing frictional engagement of the spindle'with the sleeve'and maintaining vsaid means carried by the'spindle'from connection with the member when the spindle is moved to y a predetermined position relative to the sleeve.

9. A printing device comprising an oblong member having raised printing type on an exterior surface and s, shoulder intermediately of and remote from the ends of the member, a tubular casing open at one end for receiving said member thereinto, a resilient finger anchored at its outer end to the casing and extending inaccessibly therefrom longitudinally inwardly and in spaced relation from the side wall of the casing, and a shoulder on the finger inwardly of its anchored end for cooperating with said shoulder on the member tolock the member within the casing.

10. A printing roller comprising 9, cylindrical barrel with raised type on its outer cylindrical surface and a shoulder intermediately of and remote from the ends of the barrel, a tubular casing open at one end for receiving the barrel thereinto, a, resilient finger anchored at its outer end to the other end of the casing and extending inaccessibly therefrom longitudinally inwardly and in spaced relation from the cylindrical side wall of the casing, and a shoulder on the finger inwardly of its anchored end for cooperating with said shoulder on the barrel to lock the barrel within the casing.

11. A printing roller comprising a cylindrical barrel with raised type on its outer cylindrical surface and a shoulder intermediately of and remote from the ends of the barrel, a tubular casing open at one end for receiving the barrel thereinto, a resilient iinger carried by and extending longitudinally inward of the casing from its other end, and a shoulder on the finger between and remote from the two ends of the casing for cooperating with said shoulder on the barrel to lock the barrel within the casing, radial movement of the linger and its shoulder in one direction being adapted to release its shoulder from the barrel shoulder.

12. The printing roller defined in claim 11 plus an inclined surface on the free end of the linger arranged to be engaged by a cooperating inclined surface and effect said radial movement of the ngerand its shoulder.

13. A printing roller comprising a cylindrical barrel with raised type on its outer cylindrical surface, a tubular casing open at one end for receiving the barrel thereinto. means including a, resilient finger carried by and extending longitudinally inward of the casing from its other end and provided with a shoulder between and remote from the two ends of the casing adapted to.v cooperate with a shoulder on the barrel for locking the barrel within the casing, radial movement of the finger in one direction being adapted to release its shoulder from the barrel shoulder, said'iinger having an inclined surface on its free endpand a member mounted to slide longitudinally within the barrel and having an inclined surface on its forward end for engaging the first named'inclined surface and effecting said radial movement of the finger when the member is moved longitudinally toward and against the iinger. y

14. The printing roller defined in claim 13 in which ysaid member is mounted to slide longitudinally in the barrel between said barrel shoulder and a second shoulder on the barrel spaced from the first barrel shoulder a distance greater than the length of said member.

'15. The printing roller defined in claim 14 plus a spindle having a plurality of resilient fingers on its forward end provided with outwardly fa c ing shoulders for engaging said second shoulder on the barrel and locking the spindle in and to the barrel when the spindle is inserted thereinto, the rear end of said member being recessed Y to receive the forward end of the' spindle frictionally thereinto. WALTER P. OSGOOD.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,651,302 Terry Nov. 29, 1929 2,099,679 Davis Nov. 23, 1937 2,204,577 Davis June 18, 1940 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 733,790 France Oct. 1l, 1932 

